> I don't know why, but spam on mailing lists seems relatively rare Mailing lists have a central place where all messages come in, and that can ban spammers.

> I don't know why, but spam on mailing lists seems relatively rare Mailing lists have a central place where all messages come in, and that can ban spammers. Usenet is distributed and messages come from everywhere, so any spam protections needs to be done in the client.